We found 39 YouTube channels similar to PeriscopeFilm
Targets archival and historical footage similar to PeriscopeFilm with strong overlap on search terms like railroad archive footage, hydroelectric power archival footage, and early computing footage, while the content match (73%) indicates a shared material focus but potentially different presentation style.
Attracts viewers interested in archival motion pictures and transportation/history clips, aligning with PeriscopeFilm on searches such as archival motion pictures and transportation history footage, though content similarity is high (82%) suggesting similar but not identical video catalogs.
Competes for audiences via educational film archives and railroad/hydroelectric/tech history queries, with search overlap (45%) indicating some shared queries but content (78%) shows a strong alignment with PeriscopeFilm’s archival educational material.
Shares an audience through midcentury advertising film queries, but lower overall search match (33%) suggests fewer overlapping queries, while higher content similarity (76%) points to similar midcentury advertising film content.
Similar focus on transportation history footage and 16mm archival material, with notable search overlap on transportation history queries, and high content similarity (80%) indicating closely related stock footage and style.
Broad historical film clips channel competes on general historical footage searches, with substantial search overlap (37%) and moderate content similarity (67%), signaling shared clip-centric archival material but broader scope.
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| #7 | 54% | Unexplained Studio | 76% | 15.2K | 22% | 2 |
| #8 | 54% | WAR MEMORIES | 74% | 19.3K | 24% | 2 |
| #9 | 54% | ThamesTv | 77% | 433K | 20% | 2 |
| #10 | 54% | glamourdaze | 76% | 744K | 21% | 3 |
| #11 | 54% | History Stamp | 79% | 1.6K | 15% | 1 |
| #12 | 53% | Important Naval History | 72% | 35.6K | 25% | 2 |
| #13 | 52% | FilmArchivesNYC | 77% | 16.3K | 15% | 1 |
| #14 | 52% | Gerry Chicalo | 63% | 1.9K | 37% | 6 |
| #15 | 52% | Top Fives ▶ | 72% | 3.1M | 21% | 2 |
| #16 | 52% | electricseahorse27 | 73% | 1.5K | 19% | 2 |
| #17 | 51% | GenreOnlinenet | 72% | 197K | 20% | 4 |
| #18 | 51% | British Pathé | 75% | 3.6M | 14% | 5 |
| #19 | 50% | Justin Brown - Primal Video ▶ | 71% | 1.9M | 19% | 1 |
| #20 | 50% | Fresh and Felicia Reviews | 71% | 35.4K | 19% | 1 |
| #21 | 49% | Cinema Relics | 72% | 63K | 15% | 1 |
| #22 | 49% | C-SPAN's American History TV | 70% | 45.5K | 19% | 1 |
| #23 | 49% | The Museum of Modern Art ▶ | 68% | 621K | 20% | 3 |
| #24 | 49% | Student Energy | 71% | 72.3K | 15% | 1 |
| #25 | 48% | Impactall - Science • History • Curiosity | 69% | 2.3K | 17% | 2 |
| #26 | 48% | AI Playground | 70% | 70.7K | 15% | 1 |
| #27 | 48% | Lilly's Tech Tips | 68% | 75.5K | 18% | 2 |
| #28 | 48% | Matt WhoisMatt Johnson | 70% | 440K | 14% | 3 |
| #29 | 48% | One Minute History | 68% | 12.3K | 17% | 2 |
| #30 | 48% | Dunna Did It | 71% | 430K | 13% | 1 |
| #31 | 47% | The Atlantic | 64% | 912K | 21% | 2 |
| #32 | 47% | Film Thought Project | 68% | 32.9K | 15% | 1 |
| #33 | 47% | Marko The Explorer | 67% | 1.6K | 16% | 2 |
| #34 | 47% | Daniel Reynolds | 68% | 9.8K | 15% | 1 |
| #35 | 46% | CRITERION | 67% | 831K | 15% | 1 |
| #36 | 46% | Johns Hopkins University | 66% | 66.1K | 15% | 1 |
| #37 | 45% | Adam Savage’s Tested | 67% | 7.2M | 13% | 2 |
| #38 | 45% | Archives New Zealand | 66% | 40.2K | 13% | 2 |
| #39 | 44% | APA Group | 64% | 5.7K | 15% | 1 |
PeriscopeFilm's biggest competitors on YouTube are Kinolibrary (84% match, 238K subscribers), Charlie Dean Archives (66% match, 74.4K subscribers), and HuntleyFilmArchives (64% match, 103K subscribers). They share a focus on historical and archival footage, vintage film material, and stock footage similar to PeriscopeFilm.
PeriscopeFilm creates documentary-style historical stock footage content, including WWII, Cold War, NASA, and other era clips, as seen in titles like 'Stock footage from Periscope Film Promo Reel' and themed segments such as 'ACCESS' and 'TOUR OF THE TURBO'. Uploads appear to be frequent (average around 11K views per video) with multiple recent videos listed and a roughly weekly to several videos per week cadence.
We analyze PeriscopeFilm's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.
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